Maybe don’t waste your money on organic food.
Just 2 more payments, gentlemen, and this beautiful 12-slot luxury egg carton is all mine!
Them eggs is spensive cuz they real good ones. I gottem and gonna eatum with my limited edition cheese and laugh at the poors!
Limited edition cheese - grated, plated and curated!
In Canada a 30 pack of eggs is $10 CAD, which is just shy of $7 USD.
Must be all that fentanyl making the chicken make more eggs /s
I have chickens. People refuse to pay $5 a dozen for our pasture eggs. Even though that's cheaper than any other eggs in the area. I'm also sitting on a dozen goose eggs. A goose egg is three times the size of a chicken egg. They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.
Here in southern california the only eggs I have even seen on shelves are my usual small farmers market eggs, which are now the same price or cheaper than the grocery store. It has been astounding me that the better and now cheaper option is the one not sold out. Humans really are just psychology multiplied.
Keep sitting on those goose eggs, when they hatch and you attack with your goose army they'll all be sorry.
It takes a full year to hatch them and then wait for them to become soldiers since they are only aggressive in the spring. Ain'tnobodygottimeforthat-meme.gif
This is because people assume that you should do it out of the goodness of your heart. Since you're not mass producing.
Which is absurd.
If anything they should be willing to pay you a premium for a high quality product produced in far better conditions.
no but see it's about hierarchy. the factory farm is bigger than me, and so I must serve it and obey on its terms. the local farm is just a person. I bet I could take them in a fight. therefore they should serve me and all interactions should be on my terms.
I wish I knew how to find farmers selling eggs like you. $5 for a dozen is a steal. Do you wash them? Or go European style?
Ikr my husband and I pass a house that sells their fresh eggs for $3 a dz when we visit his parents. I always stop and buy two!
If me neighbor had eggs like that I would buy it as often as they would let me.
They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.
That's not how markets work though...
In the USA? That's interesting. Any idea why they refuse to pay more (but still less)?
Most people are clueless about the actual costs of eggs. In my area I'm pretty sure most of them think eggs are mass produced in a factory even though cows outnumber people on an average block and they should know how eggs are made but they are too busy avoiding education at every opportunity because that is the will of Daddy Leader. I'm only half joking.
Do the eggs just go to waste then or do you need to eat a lot of extra eggs if you can't sell them for $5/dozen?
Wouldn't it make sense to lower the price to what people will pay even if it doesn't cover the cost of the chickens, but at least reduce the cost of the chickens? If it's not your main source of income and you have the chickens either way wouldn't some money be better than no money?
Eggs go to waste. There is no way we can eat them as fast as they come. It's not really even a factor of price. We could list them as free and even though the stores are sold out we'd still not get rid of them. Selling eggs is similar to the worst parts of Facebook marketplace. People say they will come and don't. They show up and the eggs aren't good enough because you don't feed them the same exact feed they would if they had chickens. They can only buy if there are at least five dozen available. The eggs aren't white, or blue, or green, or whatever their kink is.
Egg buyers are the most picky people on earth. We did get lucky last year with one couple that would always take whatever we had. But we don't actually set a price. We live in poverty. We let anyone that shows up pay whatever they want. These people covered our feed costs but that was about it.
Subscription payment on eggs is wild! lol
Even worse, it's buy now pay later.
Just watched a video a month ago about how Gen Z is doomed to own nothing when we die, and how so many of us are in crazy debt already because of buy now pay later services. So thankful me and my sister are borderline allergic to spending money and that I just hate shopping for clothes because that shit was depressing to hear.
Apparently my gen fell into this debt whole because we think they're not the "scary & bad" loans that our 2008 financial crisis parents had, these are "different" somehow 😬
Oh my gosh, this planet is the bad place. Are we in hell and did we all die in Dec 21 2012?
LPT: it's almost springtime and you can find free eggs in the tree then.
I once laid an egg in my pants.
Its also the time of year to start thinking about buying chicks. Its a commitment and I recommend doing your research but if you can properly care for egg laying hens then I highly recommend you consider building the required infrastructure and having hens. There is an initial investment, but now it costs me about $3 to produce a dozen pasture raised eggs.
Does the White House still do the egg roll? It sounds Chinese? But the Russians have those nested egg doll things. Which will Trump embrace?
Random tip: Kala Namak is a condiment which tastes a lot like egg yolk. If you sprinkle it onto some cooked white beans, that's kind of like scrambled eggs (well, it is different, but also good and might satiate a craving).
Basically, Kala Namak is salt+sulphur. Egg yolk also contains sulphur, and well, sulphur is one of the minerals we should be eating anyways.
Kala Namak
That's black salt! I like to use it in cooking sometimes, it's a little like MSG. I'd never sprinkle it on something that's already on a plate though.
It also doesn't have any protein to speak of.
That said, it's perfectly possible to eat tasty, healthy & balanced without eggs.
Kala namak and processed egg whites from a bottle. We're heading towards a dystopian future
Tofu scramble is another good alternative, albeit also not exactly the same. This recipe looks like a decent starting point:
https://www.noracooks.com/tofu-scramble/#wprm-recipe-container-4234
I also really like adding vegetables to my scramble, that'll make it even less like eggs though.
This is some dystopian shit right here
It's been a pretty common spice in vegan cooking for many decades now. it's dystopian that this is how it's being used now but the actual existence is pretty cool
4 × 2.97 < 11.89.
Don’t worry, that’s just the rate if you have perfect credit (*starting at). The people that actually need such a service would likely be paying $3.50 per payment.
Yup. It's just another predatory service.
Honestly they're probably taking a loss to punish people who miss payments on their eggs. One person on the debt treadmill is worth a lot more than a few cents... Loans are so shady as an industry, the smaller they are the more they're just looking to further exploit the poorest people
Either that or they think the dollar is about to deflate lol
I think the most likely thing is that they did 11.89/4 and then rounded to the nearest cent.
I used to buy these after recent price hikes. To be fair, these were always three times the price than regular eggs.
Yeah, but they were $8.99 before the shenanigans started.
Building a small den to hold 2 to 4 chickens is cheaper in the long run.
For the city: Renting a parking spot and turning an old junker into a chicken den is also probably cheaper. Just make sure to secure it against egg thiefs.
Not eating eggs is cheapest.
Your time is valuable too. You should be factoring in the amount of additional work required to upkeep.
Yes those chickens will surely thrive in their den inside my den..
Actually they'd probably do a lot better than the chickens in the industrial farms.
Is it? Speaking from experience? I've heard it both ways and trying to get a better idea of how it works out financially.
Depends what land you have, if you are more reliant on feed then you will be at the mercy of feed prices which can vary. If you have enough secured land then it can be practically free. Also Coyotes are assholes.
Just to make it clear, the second part was a joke.
About the other, relatives actually got 6 chickens. The main investment is time and land, and occasionally a trip to the vet. Given the US prices… if you eat eggs regularly and don't want to miss it then I'd assume it's cheaper, would have to ask for a details myself though (they jokingly said once they would save a ton in the US right now). It heavily depends on outside factors though (less land, dangers = more expensive).
My wife grew up on a farm and her description of how nasty cleaning out the chicken coup is is enough to put me off ever considering keeping any kind of birds
why are eggs so atrociously expensive in the US? where i live they’re the equivalent of 3$ USD for a dozen
The eggs in the picture are like the most expensive eggs you can buy. A dozen of the cheapest eggs are around $5-6. Which is still like 3-4 times as expensive as they were a few years ago, but not nearly as insane as what is posted.
Well, I guess you’re all satisfied, it seems to be guaranteed /s
One of the reasons I hate to get on social media is pictures of people flaunting their wealth.
pretty funny that here in Australia, you can get a dozen for around $2 or 3 aud, and even then our major supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, are getting probed for price gouging, AND we are apparently going though a shortage due to bird flu.
The only issue is that the US has an avian flu that causes them to cull lots of birds and also drives up the costs.
If the country had a significant amount of voting citizens that cared, it would be able to deal with this sort of issue in stride…
Here we are…
These Vital Farms eggs come with an insert with a QR code that allegedly shows you pictures of the specific farm your eggs came from. I've never bothered to look it up though.
It does have it, and I've seen different farms for each one that claims to be a different farm. However, it's not a live feed, it's a prerecorded video of the chickens on the farm. It does seem ethical, but I would prefer live feed since anyone can take a video per farm and then not let the chickens out ever again.
This avocados my toast
Stop eating eggs. It's literally animal period if that helps you
why couldn't you have made literally any other argument against eating eggs? you could have brought up the conditions in chicken farms instead of this pointless appeal to whatever you were trying to appeal to
you did not even write anything to support beeing vegan in the commetns. Thats kinda more sad than what I did ngl. But we both know who the enemy is. Those dead body eaters.
Bro, I am not vegan because it is disgusting. Which is why, I wrote if this helps... because for many people it does not matter how the animals are treated. There are an infinity of good amounts for going vegan.
I was with you in the first sentence. Then you just made me hungry.
Bringing up the chicken shit of people amongst an avian fowl epidemic… sounds red enough. OP never has cared about the country so much as the problem of the day to push the people apart.
But considering OP I’m not surprised this whole post isn’t dedicated to making Biden look bad. Even after the election. Their point is for you to hate everyone regardless…
